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Wednesday, December 06, 2006

My podcast on The PodLounge

My weekly Podcast on the this is network of regional websites has now been going for nearly a year. This is something of an achievement in itself given that many mainstream media podcasts have been launched in a blaze of publicity during that time and failed to stay the course.

So I'm particularly pleased that podcast aggregator The PodLounge has decided to make it one of the three featured podcasts on its homepage this week.

They've done a short interview with me about the podcast, which was originally launched last December as a pilot project for introducing podcasting onto the this is sites, an initiative which I oversaw and which now includes around 20 different podcasts from various regional newspapers across the country.

The full list of episodes can be found HERE. The most recent, No 46, previewed this week's Trident announcement. Next week's may well feature something on the Pre Budget Report and what it means for Gordon Brown's chances of reaching No 10.

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